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Re: a different view of SNMP

  • From: bandregg
  • Date: Sun Sep 05 09:41:18 1999

On Sat, 04 Sep 1999 19:49:14 PDT, "Ron Buchalski" wrote: 
>>I sometimes wonder why Wellfleet nee Bay nee Nortel haven't already
>>taken over most of Cisco's market share for this reason given their
>>almost total embracement of SNMP for configuration and management.
>>Sure, they did leave a wide market niche for third party font-end tools
>>that actually worked, but at least they embraced the standards!  :-)
>>
>
>Well, could it be because Cisco routers _work_?  :-)

Or that you don't have to use that piece of crap called Configuration Mangler 
to deal with the thing and then pay for upgrades to a version of configuration 
software that doesn't leave the equipment in a bad state.
-- 
                 Bryan C. Andregg * <[email protected]> * Red Hat, Inc.

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